COST OF LIVING.
LATEST BRITISH FIGURES.
PRE-WAR COMPARISONS. (Received March 20, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON. March 20. A statement issued by the Minister of Labour shows that although the cost of food has reached the lowest average since the Great War the general average cost ■to-day is still 50 per cent, above that of July, 1914. The cost of clothing ranges to 115 per cent, higher than at the dale named, and the increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the pre-war standard of living of the workers and their families is 61 per cent.. This return ignores the enormous increases in rent, taxes and the cost of tobacco, beer and amusements.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 13
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111COST OF LIVING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 13
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